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>> and is there a reason this was allowed? you know, amber marie rose, in a car accident july 2005, the ignition switch, from running the car to running the radio, this would go straight to the national highway traffic safety administration, they start to investigate. over a nine-year period, they get 164 complaints about the coal ballot. now, heres -- heres the funny thing about the colbalt. they want gm to be held accountable. but why did they let this go through? was it about the bailout? >> ...

She is an engineer. and what this appears to be is circling the wagons within the engineering department, and not letting this get out. and just assuming that they could fade the lawsuits and that would be better than acknowledging publicly -- i mean, the notion they would fix this part and give it the same number, that unique no other proof that there was a cover-up, other than the fact they wouldnt let the parts suppliers know, wouldnt even let the dealerships know, that they were dealing with...

Announce a safety defect linked to 13 deaths. she apologized to the families of the victims and vowed a similar situation would never happen under her watch. >> how does gm balance cost and safety? >> we dont. today, if theres a safety issue, we take action. if we know there is a defect on our vehicles, we do not look at the cost associated with it. we look at the speed in which we can fix the issue. >> was there a culture in gm at that time that they would have put cost over safety? >> again, w...

>> the question is whether or not the ignition key, if theres another attachment, a tag of some sort. as almost all of us do with our car keys, whether that extra weight would pull it down, with the original defect cause the ignition to go off. >> well, andrea, ceo mary barra has been very careful on how shes answered this. in facing quite a grilling from those senators today. as you mentioned, the nbc investigative unit has been digging into the story for the last month. several parts of our re...

Yours from the fox news deck. first from fox at 3:00, were looking at the head of americas biggest automaker, on capitol hill. we have been listening for the last hour. her company is accused of overlooking a deadly glitch and issue ago re-calls a decade to late after more than a dozen people died. the ceo of general motors is right now testifying on what investigators call the central problem, a faulty ignition switch. family members of some of the victims today blasted general motors for not a...

A good decision. >> i dont know they made a good decision or bad decision. i will leave that for the viewer to decide. i believe from the courts perspective, from legal folks theyre not counting on the courts overturning it, if they do, it would create political chaos would require that not only democrats respond but i think would put pressure on republicans as the chief critics to say heres our better plan that will withstand scrutiny from the courts. jon: yeah, we, after the whole health care ...

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Good day. im andrea mitchell in washington where lawmakers are going to push the gm ceo on how glrks m let customers drive defective cars. she plans to apologize and say she did not know about safety issues with several gm models over a seven-year period. survivors and the families of individuals killed in accidents linked to ignition switch failures told reporters how important todays hearing is to them. >> this is just the tip of the iceberg. we are the people left behind when a loved one got ...

Deaths go up over the coming days? >> clearly, the lawyers involved who represent some of the family members that you were just playing definitely want to find out if there are more people who could be added to a potential lawsuit going forward. if there are more deaths related to the issue. in the past hourks were learning from democrats on this committee that they have done a new analysis. this one of warranty claims going back from 2003 until 2012 and what they found are 133 different cases i...

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